Brewfest (September 20 - October 6)

Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!

There is also a special experience buff: Brewfest Enthusiast. High Tinker Mekkatorque and Vol'jin will give speeches by their camps at 6:15 AM and PM Pacific time, and then buff everyone nearby with this 2 hour buff which persists through death.

Brewfest, based on Oktoberfest, runs from September 20 through October 6.

Ram Racing Quests

Ram Racing is a fun Brewfest minigame where players try to go as fast as possible and collect numerous Portable Brewfest Keg before their time on the ram runs out. After initial one-time quests, players can test their ram-riding skills daily--the better they are, the more Brewfest Prize Token they can collect.

There and Back Again or There and Back Again: Awards 10 Brewfest Prize TokenStart & End:Ram Master Ray or Neill RamsteinThis quest is a little challenging. You are once again granted a temporary ram mount that lasts 4 minutes and you must use the Ram Racing Reins and your new-found skill of ram riding to receive and deliver kegs of brew between the goblins. You must travel down the path, minding your speed and fatigue, and you will be thrown a Portable Brewfest Keg by either Bok Dropcertain or Flynn Firebrew. Simply return the keg to the questgiver three times to successfully complete the quest. I highly recommend moving as quickly as possible and stopping momentarily at every barrel of apples to insure you do not reach 100 fatigue. After completing this quest, the questgiver will allow you to help him out one more time per day.

Daily Ram Race: Awards 2 Brewfest Prize Token per turn-inStart & End:Ram Master Ray or Neill RamsteinThis is a very good option for accumulating more Brewfest Prize Token. This daily quest is available after successfully completing There and Back Again. Simply speak to the NPC again and offer to help him out again. The questgiver will give you another ram with which you must retrieve and return more kegs, awarding 2 Brewfest Prize Token per loop and 30 additional seconds. You can do this as many times as possible until your ram mount expires at 15 minutes.

Daily Quests

Bark for ________!: Awards 15 Brewfest Prize TokenStart & End:Cort Gorestein / Ja'ron or Daran Thunderbrew / Becan BarleybrewThis quest can be started at either of the rivaling breweries and may only be completed for one brewery per day. Horde players can choose between Bark for Drohn's Distillery! or Bark for T'chali's Voodoo Brewery! and Alliance players can choose between Bark for the Barleybrews! or Bark for the Thunderbrews!. It does not matter which brewery you choose to bark for, and you can even choose a different one each day (though don't tell the other guys)! For this quest you are yet again given the ram and Ram Racing Reins: this time you must run throughout your capital city, visiting different designated checkpoints within a 4 minute time limit. This quest can be rather challenging, as there are no apple barrels to renew your ram's fatigue so it's best to keep a steady (albeit annoyingly slow) pace as you travel throughout your city. Once you reach the fourth location, provided your time, many players opt to cancel the ram buff and simply mount on a regular epic mount to go return the quest.

In addition the Brewfest items for sale by the token vendors, there are also a variety of food/drink sellers found in the camps, selling wine, cheese, sausage, bread and (of course) booze to the festival patrons which are covered in the Achievement section.

Brew of the Month

The "Brew of the Month" Club Membership (Alliance / Horde) starts a quest that is completed in your respective faction's major city and enrolls your character in the Brew of the Month Club where you will receive a new brew in the mail every month, delicious drinks with quite interesting side-effects!

Coren Direbrew, The Grim Guzzler and the Dark Iron Dwarves

You can queue up to kill Coren Direbrew using the Dungeon Finder tool. In 2017, you do not need to be max level to queue up, you can start queueing up at 46. Upon killing Coren Direbrew for the very first time, he will drop a quest item, Direbrew's Dire Brew, which starts the quest Direbrew's Dire Brew (Alliance version). Turning in this quest will award 40 Brewfest Prize Token.

On your first kill of each day, you will be awarded a Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest, which has a chance to contain awesome items. You can get only one Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest per day, so there is no longer a point to farming the boss once you don't need any of the trinkets he drops. Simply queue up and kill him once per day per character for your chance at the mounts or other rare items.

The first time you defeat Coren Direbrew each day, you will be awarded a Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest. This treasure chest has a chance of containing Coren Direbrew's non-trinket drops. You can even get more than one of these items in the same chest, or less happily, a duplicate item you already own.

Remember you will be rewarded just one chest daily, so that's only one chance per day at all of the more rare drops.

Brewfest Achievements

Brewfest is more than just standing around dressing funny and drinking grog! In the midst of the unruly behavior and excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages, there's a title to be earned--Brewmaster.

Other Achievements

Brew of the YearFor this achievement, you must drink one of each of the 12 beers featured in the Brew of the Month club. You will receive a new brew at the beginning of every month and will only be able to purchase that brew for the duration of that month--be careful you don't miss one. This achievement will take a full year to get, but thankfully it is no longer required for the Brewmaster achievement.

Almost Blind LuckThis achievement is just a Brewfest version of Going Down?, so any strategies/locations specified for that will apply. Just remember to get really, really intoxicated beforehand (ie. "completely smashed") and try to survive the fall.

Rank 8 and above players in the Brawler's Guild can also try their luck at brews from Mozzle Gearbeer and Haxxil Drinkmeister in the special VIP area. Their goods rapidly cycle, but they sell all the Brewfest drinks.

Comments

Comment by hellomynameis

Too bad they didn't make Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest Bind to Account this year. It kinda sucks to get those mounts multiple times on some chars, but never on the char you want.These mounts are account-wide now.

Comment by Cordana

Very well done as always. Kudos!

Comment by Aomknight

For "Down with the Dark Iron, there is an error where it says icon name=side_alliance, instead of showing the icon.

Comment by Emmitcrane

the quest was removed and also the one for the other pet due to some EU law with regards to drinking and violence in video games. this has been posted on the quests for the last 2 years on wowhead. i wish they would bring it back as its part of the meta achievement and i dont see them having server specific versions of it.

as stated below and confirmed by GM in game the pet is able to be bought on EU realms. its a legal issue that they can not have the quests in game on EU realms

Comment by Wardelorn

Was this guide updated for 4.2? The version written here still says 3.0.1 but the items already link to the new ones. Please clarify the matter...

Comment by Emmitcrane

can the guide be updated to say that for EU realms they just need to buy the pet for Does Your Wolpertinger Linger? from Belbi Quikswitch <Token Redeemer>

reason being in EU there is a legal issue with the quest line for it and they had to remove it.

Comment by Empower

This year you can make 1000g+ an hour by queueing for Coren with a tank.

Comment by Pyratewench

Um...I think they hotfixed it...I know i was getting 15-20 gold per fight last night, but running just now...only 1gold +change is dropping per person.

I think too many ppl taking advantage made them rethink the gold drop lol.

On top of not being able to vendor the trinkets, only being able to own one (of each, being Unique), and they can not be disenchanted....sounds very strongly that they are discouraging ninja/gold farmers. No need to farm this boss once you have your daily reward and trinket of your choice..means Queue times will greatly increase very quickly here I'm betting.

Comment by leeisl

Like you said, people didn't complain as much back then. Why? Because when they contained badges, there was "something" that could be seen as looted, and not the one line buried in the chatlog that is now. And there was no misleading "There is no loot." message in the same place error messages are printed in the UI either, the presence of which is why I think most people think the reward bags are empty in the first place.

Comment by Jsreeffish

Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest Treasure Keg awards Justice Points quickly when clicked if no epic item is in the Keg. Be aware of this and the Quest Keg given for quest as I thought I did not get the Treasure Chest Keg at all when in fact I did and it was and J P were awarded.

Comment by unclekoen

As of 2013, Blizzard celebrates Brewfest from September 20 until October 6.

Comment by perculia

This is now updated and improved for 5.4! More details on prize tokens, battle pets, vendors that sell specific achievement foods, and ram racing.

Comment by Yutto

The fact the EU realms STILL have to spend a tonne more of the tokens to actually get the Wolpertinger and the Pachyderm pets really does bug me.

Comment by InDimLight

Great guide for the Brewfest event.

However, under the achievements section, may be it is worthwhile to mention the Blue Brewfest Stein and Green Brewfest Stein Feats of Strength achievements which, sadly, can not be obtained anymore.

Just so to keep a record in this guide for anything which may relates to the event.

Regards,IDL

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Comment by stevezeropoint

It might not be worth the time but as a lv 90 mage after the fight I can lay waste to all the mobs there, in about 2min just arc blast them,lots of loot. easy way to get rep with the thorium bros if you want. hell kill everything in the entire instance if you want. lots of random drops.

Comment by Scoobydeux

Re: the daily keg run, "This isn't exactly a quest,", I know what you mean, but this bears more explaining. The start of the daily keg runs is a quest. You talk to the quest giver, the Ram Racing Master, and you get gold and XP scaled by level, a four minute Racing Ram buff, and you are mounted on a Racing Ram. (The quest is at this point completed.) You can then use the Racing Ram to do keg runs, each rewarding two Brewfest tokens. The ability to do kegs runs is in effect a quest reward. This is why, if your Ram de-spawns, you cannot abandon the quest and start over (which you can do on the Ram training quests).

The initial Racing Ram spawning is buggy, give it a second to complete. If you click the reins too quickly, before the Ram has formed, it can de-spawn the Ram.

If you have no interest in Brewfest Tokens, the quest aspect of this is quite useful. For the minor effort of clicking on the quest giver's dialog, you get XP and gold; you can then promptly de-spawn the Ram manually.

Comment by Quackie

Why are the trinkets an ilvl way behind the present level of content? I'm not saying they should be on par with mythic quality Archimonde drops, but maybe above the max ilvl of upgraded baleful stuff? Just an idea.

Comment by Sopron

How can I put the Giddyup! extra spell button to to normal bar? it is really annoying

Comment by TegoZanduba

The guide still has a few things not updated for 2015. It mentioned level 89 as needed to do Coren Direbrew, I believe it should be 100. The weapons it is linking too from the daily bag are the 470 versions, I assume there are updated versions of those that it could point to instead? In the summary of ticket spending, it mentions the 500 new for this year, but two paragraphs below that it also says 700 tickets for the new pets (which I assume was the new ones for a previous year). Perhaps there are other tweeks I missed as well.

Oh, and does anybody know does the brew of the month club only last a year now? For years I was getting them all the time, but I don't recall getting the mails in a long while now.

Comment by Mumps

"Players can currently collect two mounts from Coren Direbrew: Swift Brewfest Ram and Great Brewfest Kodo have a small chance to be contained in Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest. If you completed the Hand Stamp Brewfest quest in 2007, you can also buy these for 100."

So, I do have the 2007 Ram Mounts (both of them), so I assume I did complete the Hand Stamp Brewfest quest back then, yet the vendor only offers me both of the rams (already known) for purchase with gold. No sign of the Great Brewfest Kodo, that has eluded me for many years.

Is the above paragraph erroneous, or am I misreading something? Anyone out there that has actually seen/bought the KODO from the brewfest mount vendor? Is there a way to tell if a certain character has completed the Hand Stamp Quest in the past?

Thanks in advance!

Comment by JohnEP

The third ram racing quest ( the one where you can get 2 tokens for every keg delivered) showed up as a blue quest. Is this a daily quest? I will let you know tomorrow. BTW, I got 36 tokens today doing this quest on one alt so if it is a daily, it could be very good source of tokens.EDIT: yep, it is there today and 36 is the maximum you can get.

Comment by fl0rae

i have to say that the daily ram race is quite fun! but it sucks being killed by the opposite fraction when on the ram.. =/

Comment by Tooru

Yesterday I reported on Feedback the downgrade about buying the Swift Brewfest Ram and answered me as follows:

"It can be bought or it can be in the Keg from the dungeon event.

Either/or.

Best regards,Stephen "Sas148" Community Support Coordinator"

I read this guide thoroughly and there is no mention of the purchase of this ram, but only an item that turns your own mount in a ram. Can anyone clarify me about buying it? Are there any prerequisites?

Comment by Scoobydeux

For 2015, you can queue for Coren Direbrew at level 99 and earn the daily keg.

Comment by threninduil

Today from the keg I received a 670 level Direbrew's Bloodied Shanker.

Comment by timichal

You can (again) return the clothes bought for Disturbing the Peace within 2 hours of buying them, which means you can reuse the 350 tokens to buy the toys and pets. Too bad I only found that out after buying all the other stuff first - oh well :D

Comment by Onexy

"There is also a special experience buff: Brewfest Enthusiast. High Tinker Mekkatorque and Vol'jin will give speeches by their camps at 6:15 AM and PM Pacific time"

How can Vol'jin give a speech when he is dead?

Comment by pakteri

Thanks for the great guide!

Edit: Sucks that we can do this dungeon (for mounts) only with level 110 characters..

Comment by Wyr3d

"You can queue up to kill Coren Direbrew using the Dungeon Finder tool at level 109 (awaiting confirmation)"

I hope this isn't the case - it would really piss me off to find out they raised the bar AGAIN to do this dungeon. I was capped at 90 last year coz I didn't have WoD, and I don't have Legion this year so I'm capped at 100.

Comment by narkh

It is worth nothing that even if mentionned in the guide, the quests offered by Glodrak Huntsniper are not available on EU realms due to some obscure EU regulations.

Comment by Singeslayer

Hey, I guess Vol'jin has either got a doppelganger or cheated death again. Tapping the keg for the horde must be an important job for him.

Comment by SaltLB

9/20/16 - 1:24 PM - Seems to be a bug currently that instances your party into the beginning of the dungeon rather than at the Grim Guzzler. Teleporting to "just past the Grim Guzzler" will not work as the door will be locked. You will have to run for the time being or activate a special teleporter as Perehedhil stated.

As of 9/24/16, entering the instance now ports you to the Grim Guzzler.

Comment by Aralnda

i feel like the wolpertingers arent showing anywhere. yes im wearing the brew goggles and i have them macroed but nothing..

Comment by Stormeey

So.... it requires 109 to queue for Coren Direbrew but the loot only requires you to be level 100 to equip. Its BoP. Something is wonky lol

Guess alts miss out this year.

Comment by furdude2

New find! The Barrels for the Ram Running are now able to be ran through no more gettin stuck! :P enjoy!

Comment by delindsay

Yo Blizz, your Scaling Tech for Legion works great, time to implement it for (at least) the World Event Bosses. Having the Gear that drops require Level 100 when only Level 110's can que is a gross oversight. There's no reason at all that every character 10+ shouldn't be able to enjoy killing Coren Direbrew and having the chance to get (scaled to their Level) cool Event items/Gear/etc.

Comment by FreeZeMaN55

Can someone confirm that you can buy the pet, get the achievement and then refund it?

Edit: I can confirm! You don't actually need to learn the pet to get the achievement, just need to buy it. After that you can refund it fom 200 tokens and buy the Brew of the Month item for the meta achievement!

Comment by Benegesserit

Wow EU what a bunch of prudes

Comment by solitha

I'm guessing the Brewfest garb is NOT transmog. Right?

Comment by Nitweed

For those making new characters just to farm tokens: Make alliance characters!

The daily quest which requires you to deliver barrels by using the ram seems to be more efficient on alliance than horde. Over several trials on both factions, I am consistently getting 24 (26 if I'm lucky) tokens on horde and 30 (32 if I'm really lucky) tokens on alliance per daily.

Comment by projecteulogy

Great. I have no use in even participating in Brewfest now that I just read you can't obtain the mounts. Some hops to turn my mount festive? Yeah. The Reindeers for Christmas look better. Then you only have 2 dailies everyday. Kinda wanted to spend some time doing stuff during an Event I've never been able to participate in until now. I'm quite disappointed I extended my sub. I would have just waited to renew during the holidays.

Mounts that are no longer obtainable in game need to be taken off the new UI. This is really misleading and I got my hopes up thinking i was going to be able to participate in a world event to get some cool stuff, when in reality, there's nothing of worth except the achievements, which aren't hard to get. I apparently bought the Brewfest pets off the AH for stupid cheap and didn't even realize it, so I guess I will just go level an alt lol.

Comment by Undreadll

The typical route that horde players take is not optimized. I just got 30 tokens as Horde and I got caught up around the turn-in a few times (it was my first time doing it since last year so I was a little rusty). I could have gotten 32 at least. I haven't tried it on Alliance, but they also don't optimize from past experience.

It amazes me that every year I jump past people at each end (turn-in and getting the barrel) and they never copy what I'm doing. For example, on the Horde path, you should only hit the apples near where you catch the barrel once. When you skim around the big rocks, aim at the barrel thrower, then turn around toward the apples a little after passing the brewfest banner to your right before you get to him. You will still get the barrel in your inventory as you turn around (or a split second after) if you're doing it right, even though the barrel he throws will hit you around the time you get the apples. The seconds saved by tactics like this add up.

Comment by Yaminoyugure

So at lvl 110, the only reason I can see this being done for anything is the chance at mounts and for tokens for items from vendors.If I understand correctly, you need to be level 109 to queue, the weapons are useless except for mog purposes because of transmog, and the trinkets are 810 ilevel. Which you can easily get, if not better, in regular dungeons....Hmmm, guess I will just farm it for the tokens to get the toys I have missed.Good luck to those still after the mounts!

Comment by DeathUnicorn

The Ram Racing Reins show up as an Extra Action Button in the center of your screen. You can set this up as a regular button on your spell bars by using this macro:

/click ExtraActionButton1You can also assign this a keybind by going into Key Bindings > Action Bar.

THIS ^^^^ SO MUCH THIS ^^^^

The BEST advice EVAR!

Much better to click the key board with one hand and navigate with the mouse on the other.

:)

Comment by Herden

Alliance side Brewfest ram barrel relay in World of Warcraft to "Hills of Katmandu" by Tantra. 331 tokens to 375 tokens. I used Weak Auras to create the barrel and ram icons down at the bottom, and a Bartender bar to show my token count.

It will take over 15 minutes to get 44 tokens if you and your internet connection do everything right.

Comment by DocLithius

This is somewhat off-topic (and not especially useful), but I just wanted to say that I think that Red Pandaren barmaid might be the cutest thing ever.

Thank you for your time.

Comment by parrydox

Brewfest 2016: Vol'jin has been replaced by High Overlord Saurfang (Horde). He came out to tap the keg at 21:10 (9:10 pm) server time, and I received the buff at 21:15 (9:15 pm) server time. In the past, the common consensus seems to be that he comes out twice a day: once at 6:00 and once at 18:00, so I'm not sure why he came out at this time. Maybe the keg tapping is happening more often now. Has anyone else noticed him coming out at odd times or does anyone else have more information on this?

Comment by warcanon

Complete the Legion invasion quests up to atleast where you talk to the illidari at the flight master in Orgrimmar before you jump onto your lv 100 alts and start brewfest dailys. I was wondering why I couldn't ride around yelling in Orgrimmar and get credit at the correct spots or ride to deliver kegs.

Comment by Mehetabel

I bought two of the Brewfest hats on an alt this morning but I'm unable to transmog them on my main. I'm wondering if you have to own the regalia on the actual character you want to transmog it on. Has anyone else noticed this?

Comment by nisx

Nothing new in 2017, more luck next year. (you can queue at lvl 20 now)

Comment by takomt

I can confirm that the minimum level for Coren is in fact 46.

Comment by Cinderhella

Why isnt there some other quests Blizz could put in on the EU servers? 40 prize tokens and a free pet is a lot when you're doing this for the first time and you're an achievement hunter.. Pretty dissapointed when I read this now.

Comment by just4u

It says here for EU, that you need 2602 tokens for everything. Well does that count Belbi's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles?Because as far as i can tell it has neither an achivement or is part of a collection.So it is not necesssary. If this is the case, the token sum is:6 toys 8003 pets (including wolpetriger) 5008 tmogables 8003 achivement exclusive(Brew of the Month,Have Keg, Will Travel,Almost Blind Luck) 4022502 tokens

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Comment by Wyr3d

Pffft, why no Cheese hat from the cheese vendor, Bread hat from the bread vendor, or Wine hat from the wine vendor?

Comment by CronoLink

It needs to be pointed out that the Brewfest xmog is NOT account-wide; you will need to buy the gear for each toon separately if you wish to have it available in your Appearance tab for that toon.

Edit: As commenters below pointed out, the Brewfest xmog is actually account-wide, but for some bizarre reason that escapes me, it won't appear as available in your other toons until the xmog's refund timer is over.

Comment by Manniala

Thx who ever, no reason to do the Brewfest this year, no new items :D

Thats a time saver :D

Comment by Loredalso

You seem to be missing the Terrific Tankard O' Terror from Coren's loot. A friend of mine had it drop for his hunter the other day.

(My warlock, of course, only gets multiples of the mace instead.)

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Comment by ValeraL

Appearances from Brewfest items are account wide. But you have to wait until refund buff ends up to see new appearance on other characters. If you don't want to wait visit transmogrifier and apply new appearance. It will remove refund buff. You can unapply appearance immediately after that if you want. After that all your characters will be able to apply new appearance.

Comment by ValeraL

Yesterday I have got a surpise from a brew club: I have received a mail with a brew! It was my last brew that I needed for an achievement. Don't know was it the reason why I received that mail or not. Or maybe just club postmaster was a little less drunk than usual and did some of his job. I prefer to think that I became a VIP member of the club at last :)